Trees to 32 m, without buttresses; the young branches densely tomentellous, glabrescent, obscurely lenticellate. Stipules lanceolate, acute, to 18 mm long by 3 mm broad at base, lateral, tomentellous, persistent. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5-18 by 1.5-7 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, densely lanate pubescent beneath, without stomatal cavities; acuminate at apex, the tip 5-13 mm long, subcuneate at base; midrib plane or slightly impressed and pubescent above when young, prominent beneath; primary veins 14-21 pairs, prominent beneath, curved at margin; secondary nerves more or less parallel forming ladder-like reticulation; petioles 1.5-6 mm long, tomentellous, glandular, but glands often obscured. Inflorescences of raceme-like reduced terminal and axillary panicles or cymules, 1.7-3 cm long, the rachis and branches densely brown tomentose; bracts and bracteoles large, 2 mm long, ovate, persistent. Receptacle conical, gibbous, to 3 mm long, brown-lanate on exterior, pedicels 0.5-2 mm long. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, 2-3 mm long, lanate on exterior. Petals white, oblong-ovate, 2-3 mm long, narrowed to base. Fertile stamens 7-9 with tooth-like staminodes opposite. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 6.7 by 3.7 cm; epicarp sparingly lenticellate.
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